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greek unemployment hits a grim new high according to figures revealing record levels of people out of work in the eurozone that after french economic woes drove a man to set himself on fire. the u.s. military wants those who carry out remote killings to take center stage by giving out battle accolades to soldiers operating american drones. and there's been no response from british police one week after a report revealed a shocking culture of neglect by hospital staff caused the deaths of hundreds of patients. from a new center here in moscow this is r.t. with the online on screen twenty four hours a day. the pentagon wants those fighting us wars from
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a. in the spotlight defense secretary leon panetta has announced the creation of a distinguished warfare medal it will be handed out to joystick wielding drone pilots who wage their battles without setting foot in combat zones. and in a going to explain to my colleagues what it takes to get the award. so you're cygnus here you have a joystick and you point click and they get an award as their sleeve that's all it takes to get it together and medal which is supposed to rank higher than the bronze medal which is given out to people who actually perform combat duty but according to the pentagon criteria i'm going to cite it here it will be recognizing a single act that directly affects the combat operation does not involve an act of valor and war incident word higher than the bronze medal so instead of having to go to the front line and risk the extreme bloody violence there you can just sit in your recliner with a joystick and maybe a couple to know for example and just wage war from about a thousand miles away. perhaps there is the perhaps there's
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a basic knowledge of the territory somewhere in the border between afghanistan and pakistan that's involved but let's compare it just sitting around basically just sitting at a base to doing something like something that was done by sergeant william stacey in two thousand and eleven he received a bronze medal a bronze a bronze star which is considered to rank below the medal that we're talking about now what he did was receiving fire along with his squad from ten or twelve and the fighters from five separate fighting positions though outnumbered three senior squad held back numerous flanking attempts and curate enemy grenades and large caliber fire he was hailed for questionably saving the lives of his marines this is a citation from his award citation and he actually died in combat in january of two thousand and eleven so again this man apparently did a lot less than what a person sitting at an army base and pointing a mouse and clicking on their territory somewhere in the middle east is. bronze
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stars which as you say have now been. the main awarded with those they must have been praised for some very heroic deeds. that you are talking about here yes the sergeant that was in question was actually doing something on the ground right now we're talking about drone strikes we're talking about. it's very questionable by a lot of institutions specially human rights organizations that practice of protecting the united states and the world from terrorism as the pentagon the you know you don't own drone strikes. strikes where they target someone via satellite and via this brilliant camera on the drone they never hit civilians they only hit militants right that is the official version but they even had they had to change that tune which was which they have been ruined by them i mean the american officials the pentagon officials they stuck by that rhetoric for years until i think roughly two thousand and six when they had to acknowledge that yes indeed at least at the best half of the people who are being killed by the drone strikes are
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actually innocent bystanders in fact there has been a research done by various universities there was a study from. the new york university school of law as well as stanford university law school and they have said that roughly all of those killed only two percent are actually high importance targets that is those are the only two percent of people who are being killed are known terrorists ninety eight percent happen to be whoever it is very very disturbing numbers numbers are disturbing and i'm like to go back and remind you that now people who are doing this and who are basically responsible for it are going to be awarded a medal that is going to rank higher than somebody who actually laid down his life in the line of duty. well he's really going to talk to my colleague research showing a little well there are no wards for cyber spying in the u.s. just yet but big brother is still watching. and knowledge is defense contract in
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the us develop software that can predict people's behavior by using social networks we report on that in just a few minutes from now. in bahrain the two year anniversary of the anti regime uprising has been marked by more death and violence a teenager has reportedly been killed in clashes between police and protesters the demonstrators say their demands to end discrimination and release all political prisoners have not been that well for more on this i'm not joined by human rights activists like mad he is in denmark well we're seeing on the second anniversary of the uprising a lot more violence but over the last two years what progress has actually been made well not a lot of progress made in the last two years you know the king has assured the commission. that actually done he did not respect the recommendations i was on a mission the human rights violations i mean and as the anniversary now i'm
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a lot of violations. by police. shot being used excessive they're going to part of stores we have our incentive really just documented a case where a sixteen year old boy. so. why are we seeing youngsters being killed in these protests particularly. well a lot of us you know they're going through the protesting and. they're protesting peacefully and they're demanding greater demand. but then their. excessive use of force by the right right we've just started. these protests whether they were good or they were all because of what most of the time they're in front of the scenes of . this in front of. us but the government and the opposition have at last decided to do some sort of negotiation talking off to two years. the opposition seems to be saying it's more of an empty gesture from the
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government but isn't it up to both sides to talk and the opposition should be positive in the approach made by the authorities well the opposition did go into the dialogue and then they said they wanted to set a mechanic for the company isn't that. one of the and we believe that it's not the right time for such a dialogue when you still have to. still. be committed every day people are not being allowed to have their fundamental human rights and allowed to gather up and protest and rights these are such rights are not be. implemented by this. government and there is not a real platform for. for the dialogue and at the same time you have a lot of political prisoners you know the united states in two thousand and obama himself. and you can't help a lot when you have prisoners political prisoners are human and it's inside the
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present and referring to me under also. international community governments certainly you can also see it that you cannot have real dialogue and still have one of the opposition really isn't because at the end they have the right so do you feel you are actually getting support then from the likes of the u.s. and its western allies while no western allies thing. they should should be more more more. clear about their human rights management and we are where you cannot only stand on and have some concerns about the bahraini government and we need to have more sanctions we need to have more actions on the international community not you getting that why you're getting that we're seeing support for the rebels in syria for example but no support for the rebels in bahrain what why is that. well you know i want it's human rights you know more than one of the united states is more and more concerned about security and they have an interest in. whether this same time. if you go if you go and what handed you it's you know but i mean the
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united states but i don't know what pressure to do here on earth and syria is the same thing. we are if you are in the middle of a geopolitical conflict we think of the end human rights universe and we need to just for the fun and think and ok so you're saying that the u.s. interests are overriding any human rights issue what are those geopolitical interests that us have in particular there with bahrain i cannot basically speak on behalf of many political political. aspects about what's happening in bahrain and why don't the united states but with as you know we have the fleet and that is a very big security base for the united states but that we need to make a sort of balance between the one between between the between the security and the united states that they can stand. behind and they're not to and yet you're talking about that security base in bahrain is bahrain in some ways being used as
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a pawn in a game to put more pressure on iran for example yes for example. or or or for for about any government where they want to come about and. it was for some you know the conventions on going an agreement that they were going to is going to be security security or are you just very briefly how bad is this going to get in bahrain where the protests going to go we've seen regimes fall could we see something significant happening in bahrain just briefly well you know if this if this violations continue and but i don't know if there is no magical access happening in baghdad and. protesters are not getting any and the treatment of this use of gas this use of shutdown has been used on a daily basis this to. it happened there was a report that in a smart under going to be in order to have people tomorrow are now going to go and help with a program about so we do not know it's a big security alert we go i'm just not willing to extend this international
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community is not. the western allies on the other so just in our eyes no i mean it's ok actually help me but i mean we are in the middle of you know but i don't know if you will. or i can't let. we'll have to leave it there thank you very much indeed the human rights activist there in denmark thanks for joining us live and i think. one out of every four greeks including over half the country's young people are out of work at the moment that's according to the country's latest unemployment figures with the jobless rate more than double the european average social analyst panagiotis a tourist doesn't see the country escaping its economic dark straits under current e.u. policies. our unemployment rate in greece guaranteed is twenty seven percent this rates of unemployment that europe has not seen since the nine hundred thirty s. and i think that more congress are also growing to follow in this path if we
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continue along the path chosen until now by the european union and the international monetary fund namely the cost of austerity and even more wage scout's budget cuts we're just going to see more deterioration of the social situation in greece we are trapped inside it's a vicious circle on was staring. and recession and there's and with the karen pollitz is there is no way out and i think that this image of stability projected by the european union or of the i.m.f. in the sense that ok greece is doing well it's it's it's not real in reality the euro zone has it's it's officially in a recession. that the debt crisis is not going to be result through austerity measures they are projecting that we we will reach their level the sort of debt
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that we had when they announced that we were never very serious and dramatic debt situation so what's there's nothing positive no positive signs. some are being driven to increasingly desperate measures due to the ongoing crisis across the continent a french man committed suicide by setting himself in foreign a job center in the city of norms and forty three year old have been refused unemployment benefits in a country which is suffering its highest jobless rate for thirteen years while he has a city has the details. it said it reports that he had actually set a letter to some journalists saying that he was going to do this this week so the police had said that they had set of surveillance outside that employment agency but they didn't manage to see him he was already on fire they said he had entered through a side street and therefore this tragedy had happened now the man did this after finding out that he is no longer eligible for those unemployment benefits and this is not the first time it has happened in france in august we know that
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a fifty year old jobless man had done the same and this is a worrying sign for france for a country that has seen its unemployment rising for the past twenty months and this after a president had been elected on a campaign of jobs and growth so we haven't seen any improvements on this front so a lot has declared twenty thirteen as a battle for jobs he said that by the end of the year there would be he would be creating jobs for the french people however statistics show that by midyear the number is set to rise and let's not forget that more than three million french people this number does not include people who have quit the unemployment program because they simply have exhausted all their benefits similar to the case of the man who had just burned himself and also those young people who have never registered or those who are in part time jobs if we look at the trend we've seen a lot of suicides and attempted suicides in countries like greece one of the hardest hit euro zone countries because of this eurozone crisis there's a general feeling of a still be in the country a lot of people going out in protest we've also heard of stories of suicides in
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italy another hard hit country so if we're looking at the trend that's happening in europe we hope it does not continue but we could see a lot more of expressions of dissatisfaction. and a picture of health still no action following an independent report into hundreds of needless deaths in the u.k. hospital with these scandals stood all people from the head of another clinic claiming the same fate as we have more stories for you coming up after this short break this is all to.
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he continues here in r.t. one out of every four greeks including a half the country's young people out of work that's according to the country's notice unemployment figures with the jobless rate more than double the european average well for morning some joined by a former greek and peer of the center left panhellenic socialist movement kaley eva thanks very much indeed for joining us over sixty percent of greek youth are unemployed what could be the long term effects of that and is there any sign of things getting better well it seems that it's getting worse not better this is the famous rescue of greece from the european union well we said a few dime several times before the elections that this memorandum didn't seem to work it was a plan that had the wrong recipe although we had to make reforms and we had to try harder to follow the law and we i think we had the wrong plan and it doesn't seem to work out so really they say that we reach thirty percent of on the fly home and
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it means that while thousand people lose their jobs every day in greece this is starting to become a humanitarian crisis and i think it's something that no one expected to see in the european union you say a humanitarian crisis what sort of impact is it having now what are you seeing there in the country with the disillusion you people who can't get jobs. you see extreme poverty you see people that they tried to get a plate of food from the church we have two hundred fifty thousand people every day trying to get to the church to find food we are talking about the young people that they want to find a job in greece they're trying to leave the country we're talking about people that don't have access to primary health services and we're talking about things that no one expected to see and of course we're hearing people try to as the safety of
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their duffy you sort of for people trying to look elsewhere while neighboring countries aren't exactly good shape either of those so in some ways great people the youth are trapped in greece no where to go. exactly it's not easy and we're facing something that we never expected it seems that the plan for growth is taking to margin too long to take place so something has to change i do believe that germany has stuck to this plan and doesn't want to admit the mistakes where we listen every day of things that could have big been better for greece if the plan was better if they had made a better estimation about what would happen but this is something that's not only numbers it's one thousand people human beings in the european union that lose their jobs every day this is creating an entire crisis inside. the plan for
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growth isn't it working because the greek finance minister has said that things could start recovering by october is he not right. we have to be optimistic but we do believe that the things are starting to change because we create a better environment they trust those they see that we apply the changes and the reforms but this doesn't mean it's the right recipe this doesn't mean greece accepted everything because we believe it's the right plan. we said a lot of times that it was a wrong recipe for greece. the whole structure of our economy is very different from what the other countries of the e.u. would believe that it is so they made a lot of mistakes we pointed out the mistakes that the think is that ok we have a better relationship they trust that greeks will follow the plan but the plan is not working so we have to start thinking in a different way but if a part of the recipe is throwing another five point six billion euros in aid to
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greece next month surely that's going to help. this is helping because we have to pay what we all so the money that can mean they go out we're just paying down debt so this means we have to start creating growth to keep money for people in greece to help young people everything is planned but it's not to go and we see that not in numbers we see next to us you see the pictures and the photographs from greece from greeks trying to get some food just briefly this grace just finally briefly i would ask you should greece then leave the eurozone would it be better off out of the euro zone just briefly now but the eurozone should become a safety net eurozone should get more europe inside and more politics not because not only commie so we have to have more europe not less the so that that's not the problem the problem is you need more. changes and we need
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a safety net that we would expect to have inside the eurozone former great company eva kelly thank you very much indeed for joining us live here on our ticker to hear your thoughts on this thank you. a week after shocking revelations of needless deaths in a british hospital there is still no signs of action the family and friends of hundreds of patients who died due to neglect of calling for criminal action to be taken against those responsible and the former chief of another hospital says he was paid half a million pounds not to talk about a similar situation elsewhere on the sarah furthest been following the scandal. but in the latest twist we've seen that it has whistleblower come out and say that he was forced to quit after he'd raise concerns about issues that he said endangered patient safety but this latest revelation comes on the back of the francis report that we saw last week now that was looking into the scandal that happened at mit stuff which hospital where it's thought more than
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a thousand patients kids have died between two thousand and five and two thousand and eight as a result of inhumane and degrading treatment wanted food stuff and hospital in september of two cents tonight is just a disaster people you know to be nice to do a little food for you. that there's that was left and you're. going to be. on the floor. to breakfast time before that's when we were just trying to stay. in the home to stand still seems. to be she'd have to go through what she went through the n.h.s. whistleblower he says that he was confronted with many of the same decisions and concerns that were raised at mit started to hospital now he was the head of one of the hospitals a united lincolnshire hospital he was facing many of the same problems he claims
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that government targets that he refused to meet the fear that it would endanger patient safety meant that he then had to quit and was subject to a so-called secret gag to keep him quiet the whistleblower who spoke out gary hall could talk to the culture there and oppression and certainly it seems that a lot of these problems have been going on i think many many years now i'm joined by the head one of the members of the n.h.s. a political party new york political party that's been formed people within the health care profession and they're all very concerned about what's happening. in the n.h.s. right now when the mid staffordshire scandal with rubio's very much the rhetoric from the government was that this was an exceptional case that this was it not a one of it was particularly bad i mean we're seeing one of the hospitals being investigated and it seems that nothing shocks just keep on coming east surprised at this no i'm not surprised at this wild stuff the trip was particularly bad there
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have always been in the n.h.s. while most of the care has been fantastic over the years in such a complicated organization and such a large organization there will be such incidents and there have been for many years the real problem is that the n.h.s. and the government do not seem to be able to learn from the all the inquiries that have been from thirty years ago the hospital advisory service would report and i think the same things are still going on now because said the chief executive of the n.h.s. david nicholson to resign have so far been resisted he says that he has nothing to be a same dog and that during his time presiding this is down to systematic failures so of course the people who are campaigning have been calling very hard for his resignation and saved by he has resisted that. we will keep you updated online with more stories and videos. you see here on the screen here's what's waiting for
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you at the moment. real torture doesn't mean just physical pain. prisoners at guantanamo. heavy metal. plus canadian forces allegedly used their power against those to protect and investigation some missing and abused girls and women. police more on that story on our web site right now.
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security is tight in libya ahead of the second anniversary of the revolution that toppled the gadhafi regime borders with egypt will be shut for five days and some international suspended flights to the country there are growing calls for protests and the threat of possible violence well let's talk about this situation with former m i five agent. joining us live on the the revelation about the supposed to be a national holiday why we sing live in authorities preparing for some kind of emergency . i think because we've seen an absolute mess left behind by the nato invasion of libya which is what happened two years ago let's not mince words and that was problematic on so many levels not just the international legal level where suddenly aggressive war could be justified as humanitarian intervention even though it stabilized an entire country and results in many more deaths than could be
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prevented. but we're also looking at a situation now where the country has lost its ability where there are reports coming out from independent journalists about militias still holding great swathes of the country and their power where we have competing fairly fundamentalist politician groups as well fighting over their territory without any of the promised ability wealth and democratic values that were suggested when nato went in so it's become such a mess in so many levels let me just quickly ask you you're saying the nato invasion is not what the libyan people wanted and isn't libya in the long term better off without good death it wasn't justified book it off he was an odious dictator who was brutal to distance yes but he was also someone who provided stability to a very unstable region and someone who provided a certain level of. egalitarian quality of life to the majority of his people what
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we're seeing now actually i think is is the west going in an asset stripping a country again we've seen this before and we'll see it again across north africa. by asset stripping us in the west going in to invest in the resources in that way doesn't the country actually benefit from that investment which will lead to prosperity and stability because everybody will benefit in the long term. all of the old trickle down well i think that's been exploded already as a ideology of economy what we're looking at now it is that the country is has major security problems. across the region with very similar what we have now as well though is that the only bits that are stabilized are those which contain the mineral resources the oil particularly which are now being guarded by western mercenary spy companies security companies so in terms of the average daily life the average libyan the quality of life has gone down there's no doubt that it is only rich and this is what obviously has happened in egypt where people are not
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happy with the result of revolution because their standard of living the economy is in dire straits we just seen the second anniversary there in egypt with massive protests we're seeing protests possibly happening now in libya could we see some sort of instability in another revolution taking place perhaps in libya as we're seeing possibly happening in egypt well i think people have invested a lot of hope in the arab spring i think now they're beginning to realize the harsh reality that a lot of it was backed by the west and the west wants to strip their countries of the mineral wealth from the spillover into other areas like mali and niger as well and this is all part of a bigger sort of power play are between us wanting to secure the sources of africa generally and stop china getting them so in terms of democracy in arab spring i think it's very naive to think that that's what the west is trying to help or our country than what has been the backlash from the west as you say trying to help because cut about half we did say that an uprising could sweep across the arab world to what extent has it for for prophecy come true well this is the irony
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because colonel gadhafi had always more to fear from islamists than most other leaders in that part of the world so by toppling him and having him murdered very publicly it's opened up a very wide opportunity for this sort of ideological mentality but then of course they become the new terrorists that the west now has a justification for these countries to defeat and that's what we're seeing in libya will probably across much more of north africa and we certainly see in mali and it's great to talk to you thanks your time five agent annie machon joining us live here at r.t. thanks. well just ahead for you in the program does the crisis the u.n. says the situation in mali is becoming humanitarian also following the french intervention we examine the issues plaguing the embattled west african nation that coming your way very shortly. but before that time for business now we've katie and she joins me now here in the studio. not a bad time for the eurozone and it's the biggest economy this time what you're
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actually showing fairly worrying signs absolutely and that's the concern the biggest economy being gemini posting dismal growth figures as well as fronts as well it's lay on the hall into one of the week. portugal so all of these results coming out today and i'll tell you how the markets reacted to what's coming off of the bike thanks a lot. wealthier british style. time to. go. to. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser report. calling it without going to
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some of. the consensus. to. choose to stories get him. to to speak. welcome to business i'm katie pilbeam the three biggest economies in the eurozone posted the was to growth figures since the height of the recession four years ago
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the economies of germany france and italy ocean more than four cars in the fourth quarter of twenty twelve earlier today i spoke to chris we he's chief justice from spam bank investment research i also am about these data releases and also for his outlook for twenty. they are certainly of great concern i think to economists looking at the prospects for the global recovery because the euro zone is one of the world's major economic regions and if it were to continue into this you know economic recession resupplied then the danger is we could see contagion spreading to china to the u.s. and that of course we didn't come back and hurt the russian economy so yeah of great concern right now but still most economists are forecasting that the fourth quarter of last year was the worst quarter and the indications are that we're
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beginning to see you know something of a recovery taking place and so for this year. the expectations are that the economy will do slightly better than we saw in two thousand and twelve so if you go along with what e.c.b. president maddi i did all day is saying that confidence has stabilized and that he does see growth at some point they say. well i think you know he's obviously hoping that that's been the case it's still too early to you know to say that there is a. boost in the economy we can see some slight improvements and they say that there is an optimistic outlook for this year compared to last year but it's far too early to be complacent for example if their worst to be the cherry aeration in the banking system in spain or initially then that could certainly undermine. leads to a much lower rate of growth or decline again this year so you know we're certainly seeing this optimistic tone and optimistic rhetoric and everybody's trying to kind of talk up the story to hope that that would increase investment consumption but
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it's still early days yet and very fragile and everybody's very nervous and really just talking about these figures that came out today they all roll the dismal today no proof that the soviet spending cuts all stare at say is not what. well if you say that the it isn't working we had a mess of. a sturdy cuts across many countries in the euro zone and we haven't really seen any benefit from that the benefit has been on the fiscal position at a budget level but not in terms of economic growth but you know this slump has extended to countries that haven't suffered austerity cuts of for example germany the region's biggest economy has also reported much slower growth than had been expected and yet you know that's a strong economy strong balance sheet didn't suffer from many any cuts what we're actually seeing is that you know the problems on the edge of europe in the mediterranean are of that stature are undermining confidence last year and this is
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what drag i guess is hoping to say the confidence is picking up but no doubt about it last year the concern about problems in mediterranean countries in ireland has had an impact on confidence and that has reduced investment spending by companies and consumption by consumers so that needs to change the need to prevent that loss of confidence from deepening because that is what will drive the euro zone economy much worse and another front so that could drag it down even was perhaps a you're right on the strength of it at the moment how much of a disadvantage is that. well the euro is a bit of an anomaly at this stage because you know the central bank and industrialists it would all prefer to see a weaker euro because you know like we see in other countries in japan particularly and the u.s. . they are striving for weaker economies to our weaker currencies to help boost economic growth. but on the other hand you know a strong euro can be taken as
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a reflection of confidence in the region of recovery and it can boost confidence so there's a little bit of a kind of a mismatch i guess between what the politicians want which is you know i think it better europe better currency which would then maybe sustain better come. friends in the region were industrious and central banker of course concerned that it will hamper growth so it is a concern. and of course the whole issue of currencies in general around the world is now becoming the major talking point a major economic issue for all central banks and for all economies. without a majlis have a look and see what european markets did today you can see reacting to that disappointing data release a whole plethora of we've got half a percent for the for their london for the dax in frankfurt over a percent in negative territory want to also mention that we had a contraction for the japanese economy as well and there's now concerns about
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school lobel growth really being. felt across the board must say so let's go to wall street see how they reacted to these growth figures and it's probably again not a surprise that we have indeed got declines for the dow jones for the nasdaq again really both is pretty flat not a lot going on pretty lackluster performance what to say but those figures though are overshadowing a drop in jobless claims positive thing and warren buffett still to buy heinz in a twenty eight billion dollars deal probably most famous for the beans and catch up so positive domestic data of a year opinion. recurrences i should say let's have a look at what the ruble did as you can see it's actually lower to the u.s. dollar and higher to the european currency you can see just as i had a mixed performance in the session today as for the equity markets and here in moscow again are taking their cue from the international markets just you can see
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really quite strong the kinds really having lost oil price of course as well that's also a factor with the energy dependent stocks here in moscow. also that is ahead of friday's r.t.s. my six i.p.o. to you want to mention the fact that. the tb performed much better than the market up one and a half percent and that's because of rumors it's selling a stake so that the markets will move on now russia's energy as group is offering the top rate of around two point five billion dollars for the greek state gas giant cintas promises to be the company's profitability and bring of a six point five billion dollars worth of investment into the country such an apology she explains for us. lenders are demanding greece pay the op it's privatization program to reduce its staggering four hundred sixty billion dollars that the country is selling off its assets hoping to raise about fifteen
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billion dollars in four years all for today is greece state owned gas provider along with the natural gas agree the operators there as far final contestants include russia's gas giant gazprom either by john stay the own four car and two greek groups the top bidder is russia's average of firm seemed offering to turn a half a billion dollars for the whole lot the company operates power generating facilities in russia and develops or than gas it promises to bring greece more cash. the company state managers have reached their limits we think we'll be able to boost the company's profitability by fifty percent and bring to five billion euros investments in the next five years that's what expands greece's pipeline system and builds and you l.n.g. termino we see greece as a potential gas transportation hub for gas flows from the mediterranean sea the
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gulf states and russia will meet. however of the prospect of greece becoming a gas hob where action to prevent the russian companies from weaving the tender as europe's is increasingly against russia's expansion on their energy markets by the time to say a better be there than what the russian companies will offer is unlikely. the newly hired image advisor to the russian government goldman sachs continues with glowing reports now predicting that the russian economy will grow an impressive five point three percent share the wall street firm has been tasked with helping russia learn foreign cash some might say this rave review is expected considering the banking giant is being paid to walk paying half a million dollars for the privilege. all right let's talk about that is valentine's day so old so the best way to keep of romance alive is no candlelit
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dinners cuddly toys or time together no no no a big salary. at least not so according to the latest job websites anyway the findings reveal that most women want more money than the. men were less conservative with an overwhelming majority not minding the idea of the wealthy a woman. that's the business of a guy in less than two hours' time muchly but. a wealthier woman that's a good idea does that mean i could be lazy or does it mean i'm not a good thing and how so choose yes you the chills bella do the claiming do the polishing valentine's day do you think. well i'll be back very shortly with more news.
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helicopters flying through the air do you have night rounds of assault rifle ammo popping as the choppers buzz over the land now this unique form of hell of terror is no longer restricted to those in vietnam in the middle east now houston miami residents are the good old you are so you can get in on the fun houston residents of terror called nine one one and scrambled for cover and even a school as part of a lockdown as a military helicopters participated in a multi-agency training thrill in miami at night in the middle of downtown onlookers caught video on their telephones of blackhawk helicopters pumping loud blank on to the people below and maybe even as i speak a flexible schedule military drill could be happening in jesper county south carolina you don't when i was a kid they tell us about how the evil soviet union would parade their tanks around how there were soldiers all over their. country even nine hundred eighty four orwell made it a point to describe our military helicopters would eternally be overhead and
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a dystopian nightmare world now we're living the nightmare the united states is a huge country there's plenty of room on remote army bases to do your training also last time i checked afghanistan you don't look like downtown miami just who are you training the kill anyways knock off the terror training but that's just my opinion . critique free. free. free. free. free. free. video for your media project free media.
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technology innovation all the developments around russia. the future covered. news continues here on big brother may be watching every click you make online u.s. government is using new defense software able to predict your future behavior and cations in cyberspace however with the program only using data submitted voluntarily via social networks claims of privacy violations don't stick and that he's got a check on reports. those of you who are using social networks will find this interesting the world's fifth largest defense contractor raytheon a multinational firm based in massachusetts came up with a software that can map out your life and even predict your moves your behavior based on the information that you provide on websites like facebook twitter or foursquare the guardian has obtained a video. where
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a raytheon staffer explains and shows how it works the program is called raw it someone already branded it google for spice just a few clicks and it creates diagrams charts maps showing who you've communicated with most online your associations and relationships places where you check in most you know over twenty five million people use this app called foursquare to alert friends of their whereabouts so the program uses that and also the photos that people take on smartphones often have led to today and longitude details automatically imbedded in them so this riot program at a quick or two can analyze all that data and as the gentleman in the video claims it can roughly predict where to find you at a given time and potentially your behavior based on your interests so this firm that developed the software a major defense contractor has acknowledged that the technology was shared with the u.s. government as part of a joint research and development effort to help build the national security system
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capable of analyzing quote unquote trillions of entities from cyber space that reminds me of the conversation that i had with william binney a mathematician a spy software expert who had worked for the national security agency for decades and who told us that the government is spying on people on a much larger scale and they're building social networks is part of it take a listen they were building social networks. who who is communicating and with whom inside this country so that your entire social network of everybody of every us citizen was being compiled. over time so they're taking from one company alone roughly three hundred twenty million records a day that's over time that probably cumulated up to close to twenty trillion over the years mr binney blow the whistle on this n.s.a. program seeing it as a blatant violation of the constitution but with this right software one can argue that they use the information that individuals have already chosen to make public
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they put it out there and most people know that privacy safeguards that for example facebook provides don't hold water really and yet people try to share so if you don't want someone to be able to map out your entire life and to be able to potentially predict your behavior stop checking in everywhere and turn off location services on your phone or maybe you don't want that in that case no worries. some other stories now from around the world that this south korean experts say they failed to detect any signs of radiation after north korea's nuclear test so far analysis is failed to find evidence that any iranian based device was used but that hasn't stopped south korea unveiling a cruise missile which it says is capable of hitting even the office of north korea's leader just three months ago the shelf reached a deal with washington to extend its list to misandry. one of the world's most celebrated sportsman script a story has since been charged with murder after his girlfriend was short. the man known as the blade runner made history not stupid to becoming the first double
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amputee to compete in the olympic games in south africa is believed to have told police that he shot steenkamp by accident thinking she was an intruder. the un has declared the situation in mali a humanitarian disaster with fears the french intervention could lead to further violence and ethnic reprisal killings allegations of atrocities of a merge following the rapid a volunteer of french led forces across the vast northern areas of the war torn nation and its guns on a one ship reports for latif from the modern capital. the united nations already describes the situation in mali as a disaster the u.n. human rights commission says the country's caught in a spiral of violence fraught with grievous consequences the situation has been made worse in the wake of ferocious fighting in and around the city of northern mali following four days of fierce resistance from insurgents complete with suicide
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attacks the french military has been forced to conclude that some of the locals maybe three missed. however some of the key areas in this conflict are still off limits to international journalists with the french army denying us passage saying it was for our own security the u.n. high commissioner for human rights not the palais made it plain in a recent statement that the situation in mali is only deteriorated following the foreign military intervention you know that the insurgency in mali is aggravated by ethnic clashes an artsy camera crew witnessed instances of exit cusins and brutality perpetrated by the mali an army and survive. the military are not the only ones and gauged in hunting down people of arab or quora origin who are believed to be part of the insurgency and even the locals are going after them as well and for some time it has been difficult to find people from either of those ethnic groups anywhere in mali this brings us back to the fact that more than three
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hundred thirty thousand people have been forced to flee from their homes because of the crisis the last straw for all those refugees and indeed for all of mali has been a statement by al qaida coming out of the arabian peninsula which calls upon every muslim to join the holy war against france a war that is being fought in mali against the will of its people gonzalo mali our . israeli government has admitted that the man with links to the country secret service was imprisoned under a false name and that these so-called prisoner x. hang. himself while in custody two years ago the identity of the alleged secret agent was revealed by australian t.v. with israeli reports indicating that media and was initially to live by the government to keep the story under wraps for security reasons it's not known why the man was being held in a top secret town of the prison it claims are emerging he was a double agent who knew sensitive security information on list and senior correspondent for israel's had its newspaper amir has told me that the entire
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situation has become a source of embarrassment for the country. and one level it's an espionage story and mystery regarding the foreign intelligence service mossad and the tragic. circumstances under which one of its operatives apparently found his death on another level it's government versus press story and the press here has been struggling against various government agencies and gradually has been able to leave at least some of the secrecy surrounding this story there was a gag order here apparently and defer this was the case and one cannot confirm it independently from israel but again embarrassing as it is one has to rely on foreign sources if that is true and a gag order was signed by
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a judge then one would have been subject to prosecution if one were to violate it so apparently even though these really press is far from being lazy for the last two years it has waited passively for someone abroad in this case australia to break the story that's it for the moment i'll be back in about five minutes with a news team with more news for you marty. i never knew adam lanza in person but i was in the same high school as out and he was younger than me just going to be younger. i always thought he was different i always into something funny he rarely talks and you don't use a shy kid. i don't know anyone who is friends with him i also don't know of anyone
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who is particularly mean to the what i do know is that it was very clear that this person was not like everybody else. can imagine the level of mental illness that would be present to murder show. america's hero so when you go on this there would be an american behind every tree with a gun. i think for kids growing up in this environment is good for them at an early age to least see the gun and respected because they need to know what kind of damage it can do. this is our first task as a society. keeping our children safe. this is how we will be judged.
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based is based on guns you know i care read fitness. play. music but i can take the show today how to sing we just had a studio upgrade like i'm on just to go to the heights and debate which is a big city devoted to the united states. to work for a big mass shootings for me to go over to say he looks lost someone tell them it's a stop the bloodshed i just want to calm stupid thing a minute coming from is there a concept of the steam past. lead .
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live . the luck. my juggling job. to do hack work and get caught when
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lobbyists money and lawmakers are combined together that's where the problem of corruption comes from. i don't know the document's. keep up a smart look. there is also. another way behind that which is how to influence the institutions to steer clear of provocations don't answer any question. came into the office and found banners hung around the office and lots of strange faces around so i said what's what's happening will somebody please tell me what's going on and they said oh we've come to occupy your building. possibly they want to do a confrontation possibly they wanted me to ring up the police to have the police come in through the mount but it didn't seem to be
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